the classroom is doing WHAT?!
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The Drifting Classroom (漂流教室) // Kazuo Umezu
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wake up babe new reaction image just dropped
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I know you said you love horror manga. have you ever read the drifting classroom?
OMG YESSSSSSSSSS WHAT A CLASSIC
For those who don't know, The Drifting Classroom is a horror manga by Kazou Umezu. Umezu is one of the fathers of horror manga; before there was Junji Ito, there was Kazou Umezu (Junji Ito himself credits Umezu as a huge inspiration for him, even making an entire manga oneshot dedicated to him).
Anyway, The Drifting Classroom is about an entire Japanese elementary school that somehow slips through the cracks of time and space during an earthquake. The kids and teachers suddenly find themselves stranded in a barren, hostile wasteland that seems to be devoid of all life (at least at first). After the adults succumb to the pressure, the older kids have to band together to protect the younger ones and eke out a living in this hell.
Meanwhile, the main character- a boy named Sho- manages to establish a telepathic link with his frantic mother back home. It soon becomes clear that the kids are trapped on a post-apocalyptic Earth in the distant future- an Earth that has been ravaged by nuclear war, pollution, and environmental disasters. Although it seems bleak and hopeless, Sho's connection to his mother in the past allows her to do things that will benefit the children in the future.
If that synopsis interests you at all, I highly recommend reading The Drifting Classroom! You can find it online, or Viz republished the entire manga in a set of 3 omnibus volumes not too long ago (which made me VERY happy, as I had been wanting to add the series to my manga collection for a long time!).
Just a warning, there are depictions of children being hurt/killed and the story can get pretty dark, but it ultimately ends on a hopeful note.
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Hyouryuu Kyoushitsu, 漂流教室, The Drifting Classroom by Kazuo Umezu.
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Me: Brain, pls do something.
Brain: So between the "Bakeneko" #1 arc and the "Bakeneko" #2 arc we see a transformation from a dualistic view of the self to one in which the ego is perceived in a more balanced state, thus allowing--
Me: I meant like our job.
Brain:
Me: Brain...?
Brain:
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